Literaturwissenschaft

Canadian Literary Landmarks

John Robert Colombo

<p>Here is a list of three dozen of the top literary locales in the country. The selection of sites is necessarily subjective, yet it attempts to represent geographical, historical, social, ...

Alice Munro

Brenda Pfaus

<p>Alice Munro, recipient of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Literature, is undoubtedly among Canada’s greatest living writers. In this unique, intriguing collection, Brenda Pfaus gives fresh insi...

Towards a Romantic Conception of Nature: Coleridge's Poetry up to 1803

This study describes in detail the development of Coleridge's attitude to nature as it is reflected in his poetry. It analyses the different stages of Coleridge's search for a meaningful r...

En Nombre de Don Juan

Anadir uno mas a los multiples estudios sobre don Juan quiza parezca tarea innecesaria o vanidosa. A veces pienso que don Juan, junto a su lista de mujeres seducidas, pudiera presentar otra, mas l...

Gustave Flaubert, critique

'Germinal' and Zola's Philosophical and Religious Thought

Symbolist Home and the Tragic Home: Mallarm&#233; and Oedipus

Symbolist Movement in the Literature of European Languages

Edited by Anna Balakian, this volume marks the first attempt to discuss Symbolism in a full range of the literatures written in the European languages. The scope of these analyses, which explore L...

Arabic Literature to the End of the Umayyad Period

Originally published in 1983, The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature was the first general survey of the field to have been published in English for over fifty years and the first attempted in...

Sport and the Spirit of Play in American Fiction

Christian Messenger

In this comprehensive and insightful study, Christian K. Messenger contends that American writers have always created characters at play in the sure knowledge that to be active in sport in America...

Vathek

Text to Reader

Text to Reader seeks to find a critical approach that links a novel's form to its socio-cultural context. Combining elements from Iser's reception aesthetics, speech act theory, and Goffma...

Pararealities: The Nature of Our Fictions and How We Know Them

The objective of this study is to inquire, from a broad epistemological view, into the underlying nature of fictions, and above all, to discover how it is possible to create and process them. In C...

Antiguedad y actualidad de Luis Velez de Guevara

Esta coleccion de estudios criticos se ha compilado con el proposito de revalorar al genial comediografo del siglo XVII, Luis Velez de Guevara (1579-1644), y, posiblemente, restablecerlo como figu...

Writings of Charles S. Peirce: A Chronological Edition, Volume 1

Charles S. Peirce

<p>The PEIRCE EDITION contains large sections of previously unpublished material in addition to selected published works. Each volume includes a brief historical and biographical introductio...

Heinrich Heine Säkularausgabe / Gedichte 1812-1827. Kommentar

Einizige historisch-kritische Ausgabe des Dichters und Publizisten Heinrich Heine (1797–1856), die seine sämtliche Texte in deutscher und französischer Sprache sowie die überlieferte Korrespo...

Abroad

Paul Fussell

Southern Renaissance

Richard H. King

Carlyle and Jean Paul: Their Spiritual Optics

It has always been thought difficult, if not impossible, to define what the philosophy of Carlyle was. Ever since the publication of Sartor Resartus in 1833-1834, the view that Carlyle had a theis...

Estructura del Mart&#237;n Fierro

Lo que ante todo me propongo es compartir una lectura actual del ya centenario Martin Fierro, una lectura conforme a vigentes concepciones de la naturaleza y funcion de la lengua literaria. Preten...